Book Review: 'The Shadow Chaser' by Meg Gardiner

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Meg Gardiner's latest novel carries on a long tradition of runaway pacing, high-wire tension and near non-stop action established in her previous 10 novels.

"The Shadow Tracer" brings us skip tracer Sarah Keller running for her life to keep safe her daughter, Zoe, who is being pursued by a murderous family of meth dealers.

After a minor school bus accident, Zoe has been routinely scanned and a microchip discovered in her head.

This discovery launches a cataclysmic chain of events that will test every skill Sarah has developed in her profession of locating others hiding from the law. To complicate matters, an obsessed FBI agent chasing Sarah has his own agenda for her capture. Hounded by a fearsomely bizarre trio of a hit team along with three law enforcement agencies, Sarah has only her own skills to keep her out of the line of fire.

The larger question explored is how connected technology has made us to electronic surveillance, the digital economy and even our willing divulgence of private information on social networking sites. The reader will recognize that we have willingly surrendered our right to privacy in the modern world and will probably never get it back.

Richard Klinzman lives in Middleburg.

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